S-type Stars from LAMOST DR10: Classification of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Stars

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we found 2939 S-type stars from LAMOST Data Release 10 using two machine-learning methods, and 2306 of them were reported for the first time. The main purpose of this work is to study how to divide S-type stars into intrinsic and extrinsic stars with photometric data and LAMOST spectra. Using infrared photometric data, we adopted two methods to distinguish S-type stars, i.e., the XGBoost algorithm and color–color diagrams. We trained the XGBoost model with 15 input features consisting of colors and absolute magnitudes from Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), AllWISE, AKARI, and IRAS, and found that the model trained by input features with 2MASS, AKARI, and IRAS data has the highest accuracy of 95.52%. Furthermore, using this XGBoost model, we found four color–color diagrams with six infrared color criteria to divide S-type stars, which have an accuracy of about 90%. Applying the two methods to the 2939 S-type stars, 381 (XGBoost)/336 (color–color diagrams) intrinsic and 495 (XGBoost)/82 (color–color diagrams) extrinsic stars were classified, respectively. Using these photometrically classified intrinsic and extrinsic stars, we retrained the XGBoost model with their blue and red medium-resolution spectra, and the 2939 stars were divided into 855 intrinsic and 2056 extrinsic stars from spectra with an accuracy of 94.82%. In addition, we also found the four spectral regions of Zr i (6451.6 Å), Ne ii (6539.6 Å), H α (6564.5 Å), and Fe i (6609.1 Å) and C i (6611.4 Å) are the most important features, which can reach an accuracy of 92.1% when using them to classify S-type stars.